Fossil Rock Stack: Zanclean, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Mesoplodon compressus (Huxley 1864)
Chapman 1917
    = cf. Mesoplodon sp. Gervais 1850
Fitzgerald 2004
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
? Delphinidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Cetacea
cf. Scaldicetus sp. Du Bus 1867
Mammalia - Cetacea - Physeteridae
Physetodon baileyi McCoy 1879
Chapman 1917
    = Physeteridae indet. Gray 1821
Fitzgerald 2004
cf. Physeter sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
"Cetotheriidae" indet. (Brandt 1872)
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenoptera sp. Lacépède 1804
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Macropodidae
Macropodidae indet. (Gray 1821)
Piper et al. 2006 1 specimen
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Edaphodontidae
Edaphodon sweeti Chapman and Pritchard 1907
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae
Ischyodus cf. dolloi
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharodon megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus 1758)
Isurus escheri Agassiz 1843
Chondrichthyes - Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
Heterodontus cainozoicus Pledge 1985
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Goneplacidae
Ommatocarcinus corioensis (Creswell 1886)
Jenkins 1975
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 37.7° South, 141.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.5° South, 141.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Zanclean 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Zanclean
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:5.0 Ma (Sr isotope) to 4.35 Ma (K-Ar)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Grange Burn
Stratigraphy comments: Age after Boessenecker et al., 2019.
Earliest Early Pliocene (Dickison et al. 2002)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal sandy marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: shelly marl and sandy to pebbly limestone
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Forsyth's Bank
Database number:51335
Authorizer:M. Uhen, A. Hendy Enterer:M. Uhen, A. Hendy
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-06-02 19:05:39 Last modified:2022-07-19 00:43:04
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-02 19:05:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13672. E. M. G. Fitzgerald. 2004. A review of the Tertiary fossil Cetacea (Mammalia) localities in Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 61(2):183-208 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

13595 R. W. Boessenecker, D. J. Eheret, D. J. Long, M. Churchill, E. Martin and S. J. Boessenecker. 2019. The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific. PeerJ 7:e6088 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
12318 F. Chapman. 1917. New or little-known Victorian fossils in the National Museum. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 30(1):32-43 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
48401 J. A. Dickinson, M. W. Wallace, G. R. Holdgate, S. J. Gallagher, and L. Thomas. 2002. Origin and timing of the Miocene–Pliocene unconformity in south-east Australia. Journal of Sedimentary Research 72:288-303 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]
31105 R. J. F. Jenkins. 1975. The fossil crab Ommatocarcinus corioensis (Cresswell) and a review of related Australiasian species. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 36:33-62 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]
23682 K. J. Piper, E. M. G. Fitzgerald, and T. H. Rich. 2006. Mesozoic to early Quaternary mammal faunas of Victoria, South-East Australia. Palaeontology 49(6):1237-1262 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]